Ryan Angilly

To put this in historical perspective, software entrepreneur Bill Coleman noted that the most powerful inflection points in the history of mankind have come when new tools were developed to leverage and expand collective intelligence. “The first instance was the development of language, and the second was the invention of the printing press. The third major inflection point is the rise of the Internet, said Coleman, because it represents two inflection points at once: “the quantity of communication and the speed of knowledge-creation and -formation.